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Definition of Cherts

Chert
Chert Chert, n. [Ir. ceart stone, perh. akin to E. crag.] (Min.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
chert
Hornstone Horn"stone`, n. (Min.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

Meaning of Cherts from wikipedia

- and organic matter.) However, cherts range from very pure cherts with over 99% silica content to impure nodular cherts with less than 65% silica content...
- places it at an early stage in the colonisation of land. Second, these cherts are famous for their exceptional state of ultrastructural preservation,...
- and carbonate rhombs within chert. Fine-grain pyritization is the most common type of preservation in the Gunflint Cherts, in which ****ociation of fine-grained...
- The Bigfork Chert is a Middle to Late Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. First described in 1892, this...
- is made up of three formations, the Gr****y **** Chert, the Backbone Limestone and Clear Cr**** Chert. It is Lower Devonian in age. Eastward the group...
- oxygen isotopes in Mesoarchean cherts has been helpful in reconstructing Mesoarchean surface temperatures. These cherts led researchers to draw an estimate...
- bedded cherts of the Towers formation belonged to one of three different and distinct stratigraphic units. The oldest of these bedded cherts are the...
- Ordovician. The red Strong Island Chert for instance rests on ophiolites. At the Silurian/Devonian boundary black cherts (locally called lydites or flinty...
- The Princeton Chert is a fossil locality in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises an anatomically preserved flora of Eocene Epoch age, with rich species...
- and Windyfield cherts”. Its specific name, mariae is “in honour of Mary Duncan of Windyfield Farm, on whose land the Windyfield cherts occur”. From the...